2.6MT of Wheat Imported
The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)
said it has already received 2.6
million tons (mt) of the 5.5 mt of
wheat and 5 more ships with .3mt
will arrive by November 25th with 12
ships are currently discharging
.63mt at Kandla, Vizag, Mundra,
Cochin, and Tuticorin.<More>

Indo-EU Aviation Summit
An Indo-EU Aviation Summit will be
held in New Delhi November 23-24 to
bring together top-level policy
makers and industry executives from
several related sectors so Indo-EU
cooperation can be enhanced in
aviation.<More>

India Offers ICT to Brunei
India told a visiting delegation
from Burnei Darussalam that it is
prepared to shared its expertise
Information Communication Technology
(ICT) to further that nation’s plans
in e-governance, IT education, IT
parks, and cyber security to protect
critical infrastructure.<More>

Indo-Mozambique Agriculture Plan
India and Republic of Mozambique
signed a work plan to cooperate in
agriculture includes training
programs for Mozambique experts in
India, and technical assistance in
agriculture, horticulture, animal
husbandry, and fisheries.<More>

Democracy, Politics and
Judiciary

ASI to Reconstruct 843 Year Old Temple
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is planning to start reconstruction
of a 1000 pillared hall of a Kakatiya temple dedicated to Shiva build in
1163 A.D. by King Rudra Deva as its foundation was sinking.<More>

Pakistan Changes Hudood Ordinances
After years of global and national criticism over laws governing rape,
Pakistan ’s National Assembly adopted the Women’s Protection Bill 2006 even
as religious fundamentalists allege that the change will make the Islamic
nation a “free sex zone.”<More>

Environment, Health and Education

Ground Water Management
The 12th National Symposium on Hydrology focusing on
“Groundwater Governance: Ownership of Groundwater and
its Pricing” organized by the Central Ground Water Board
and National Institute of Hydrology at Roorkee presented
many recommendations.<More>

UNDP Natural Resource Projects
A 5-year United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
initiative called “Social Mobilization around Natural
Resource Management for Poverty Alleviation” is being
implemented in 11 districts of Orissa, Rajasthan, and
Jharkhand.<More>

Terrorism, Defense, Security and Science &
Technology

Indo-Swiss S&T Cooperation
Visiting Federal Minister for Science &
Technology Kapil Sibal and Switzerland Home
Minister Pascal Couchepin signed an Executive
Program of Cooperation (POC) within the ambit of
the framework umbrella agreement on cooperation
signed November 2003.<More>

US Upset with UK Taliban Truce
The US seems to have expressed “unease” with the
reported truce negotiated by the British
military in Afghanistan with tribal elders
representing the Taliban followed by a
withdrawal of British troops at Musa Qala and
restoration of the captured to local militia.<More>

Neighbors

Iran Flexes Missile Muscle Again
In a surprise and unscheduled military exercise
displaying its conventional weapons strength and leaving
Israel very worried, Iran fired a battery and range of
land and ship-borne missiles and maneuvers along with
anti-tank and anti-helicopter weapons.<More>

China Wants Arunachal
Days before the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao,
its Ambassador to India has said that his nation wants
the entire state of Arunachal Pradesh even as the joint
working group (JWG) scheduled November 9-10 was called
off because of other disagreements.<More>

World

Bush Wants WMD Deals Stopped
Fearing further North Korean (NK)
proliferation missiles and nuclear weapons,
like the Nodong missile to Pakistan (now
being paraded as Ghauri) in return for
nuclear weapons technology, the US said that
it considered these transfers “a grave
threat.”<More>

The Last Big Push
Accused of being “in a state of denial,” US
President George Bush rejected calls for a
phased withdrawal of American troops from
Iraq and instead has come up with a plan
that will give it one “last big push”
recognizing “the conditions on the ground.”<More>

The US seems to have expressed “unease” with the
reported truce negotiated by the British
military in Afghanistan with tribal elders
representing the Taliban followed by a
withdrawal of British troops at Musa Qala and
restoration of the captured to local
militia.